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Znet Article Mishra: New Maharajas in India

Znet Article, June, 27 2007 Girish Mishra
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With the change of era, the old people and classes occupying the positions of power and influence give way to new ones. This happened in England in the 17th century and in France after 1789 when capitalism began pushing out feudalism. During the f...

Znet Article Mishra: Globalization

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Girish Mishra
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Gone are the days when globalization based on Washington consensus was hailed as a new dawn in the history of mankind. It was claimed that the emergence of the New Economy would make business cycles ineffective, and people from Henry Kissinger to ...

Znet Article Mishra: World Bank in Historical Perspective

Znet Article, May, 22 2007 Girish Mishra
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The World Bank, a prominent Western financial institution, has played a major role in the changed strategy of imperialism, pursued after the Second World War. This strategy has been known as Neocolonialism. One can hardly understand the role of th...

Znet Article Mishra: Human Smuggling and Trafficking in era of Globalization

Znet Article, May, 06 2007 Girish Mishra
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The increasing incidents of human smuggling and trafficking in the wake of the arrest of an M.P. belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have become a major topic of discussion and pontification in public forums in general and the media in pa...

Znet Article Mishra: Wolfowitz at World Bank

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Girish Mishra
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Whether Paul D. Wolfowitz remains at the helms of the affairs or is pushed out, the credibility of the World Bank is so dented that it can neither be restored easily nor very soon. The paradox is that the self-proclaimed crusader against corruptio...

Znet Article Mishra: Reservations in Globalization Era

Znet Article, April, 07 2007 Girish Mishra
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The issue of reservations in both jobs, and admissions to institutes of learning is once again being hotly debated. Passions have been aroused and emotions for and against reservations are running high. Demonstrations have taken place and clarion ...

Znet Article Mishra: Rising Wealth and Declining Poverty!

Znet Article, March, 25 2007 Girish Mishra
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It is not a mere coincidence that two reports from, seemingly, disconnected sources, have appeared in recent weeks. The first is: “The World’s Richest People” in the American magazine Forbes. Its list of 946 billionaires fr...

Znet Article Mishra: Monetary Policy in the Era of Globalization

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Girish Mishra
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Willingly or unwillingly, the Government of India has come out with a number of measures to control the rising tide of inflation. Among them are the instruments of monetary policy, wielded by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), country’s cent...

Znet Article Mishra: Inflation in India

Znet Article, February, 25 2007 Girish Mishra
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The people of India have been greatly troubled by the rising prices, especially of essential commodities, for almost a year. The wholesale price index (WPI) that officially measures the level of inflation rose by 3.98 per cent during the last fina...

Znet Article Mishra: Fiasco at Davos

Znet Article, January, 30 2007 Girish Mishra
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There is not even an iota of doubt that the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2007 that opened with much fan fair at Davos, a well known mountain resort in Switzerland, ended in a fiasco. For five days (24-28 January) 2400 participants from as many as 90...

Znet Article Mishra: Our Indian Neros

Znet Article, January, 29 2007 Girish Mishra
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It was five years ago, in 2002, that a holocaust took place in the Indian State of Gujarat. One of the gruesome massacres took place in the Best Bakery of Vadodara. The BJP-led government tried its level best to cover up the incident and allow the...

Znet Article Mishra: Is Globalization on Its Way Out?

Znet Article, January, 17 2007 Girish Mishra
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For quite some time, serious doubts have been expressed about the continuance of the present era of globalization, based on the Washington Consensus or neo-liberalism. After John Ralston Saul’s well-argued book, The Collapse of Globalism, ...

Znet Article Mishra: Indian Economy in 2006

Znet Article, January, 03 2007 Girish Mishra
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The year 2006 was a mixed bag on the economic front. While it enthused the powers that be, it brought deep anxieties to the people at large. On balance, it created and left behind problems that will require great efforts to tackle. Undoubtedly, t...

Znet Article Mishra: India in American Perspective

Znet Article, December, 24 2006 Girish Mishra
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Ever since the early 1990s India has been moving closer to the United States of America. The collapse of the world socialist system, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and China becoming a capitalist-roader hastened this process. The forces...

Znet Article Mishra: Mafia in Jharkhand

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Girish Mishra
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Not many people outside Jharkhand, the newly state in India, richest in minerals, would have heard the name of Ram Ashray Singh. There is absolutely no question of giving attention to this little educated and rustic gentleman by our booming electr...

Znet Article Mishra: Access to Water-- A Dream?

Znet Article, November, 17 2006 Girish Mishra
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It was not long ago that Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate, José Saramago questioned the rationale of spending millions of dollars on missions to find out whether there was water on the moon when billions of people on the earth had no access...

Znet Article Mishra: Enron Verdict and American Double Standard

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Girish Mishra
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Jeff Skilling, the Enron CEO, was sentenced to a jail-term of 24 years 4 months on October 23, 2006. It means, if this judgment is not reversed by a higher court, he will come out of prison only in 2031 at the age of more than 76. He was found gui...

Znet Article Mishra: Meaning of Nobel Prize to Phelps

Znet Article, October, 21 2006 Girish Mishra
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The phenomenon of open or involuntary unemployment came up with the rise of modern industrial capitalism. This was because labour power became a commodity, that is, a subject of sale and purchase. People uprooted from land had no other means of pr...

Znet Article Mishra: Issues in the American Elections

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 Girish Mishra
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As the elections to American Senate and the House of Representatives are drawing nearer, more and more heat is getting generated. The Republicans are defending their crusade against worldwide terrorism by pointing out that the punitive actions aga...

Znet Article Mishra: Affluenza

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Girish Mishra
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In recent years, a new disease or, better to say, epidemic has been afflicting India. Unlike influenza or bird flue it has not come from the east nor is its effect temporary. Once afflicted, it is very difficult for the victim to recover. Till now...

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